Posted on 05/22/2021 3:50:47 AM PDT by Libloather
On Thursday, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a Democratic-sponsored bill to massively increase funding for the US Capitol Police, whose sparsely deployed forces were quickly overrun by the fascistic mob incited by then-President Trump in the January 6 coup attempt.
The bill would allocate $1.9 billion, nearly four times the Capitol Police’s 2020 budget, to upgrade and expand existing surveillance and screening procedures, provide mobile fencing, cover the costs of National Guard deployments on and after January 6, and hire hundreds more Capitol Police officers in the coming months.
It would also provide $200 million to establish a “quick reaction force” within the D.C. National Guard that could be called out at the request of the Capitol Police chief without requiring authorization by civilian authorities or Congress.
The bill was passed by a vote of 213 to 212. No voting Republican lawmakers supported the measure, for the most part in keeping with the overwhelming backing of the Republican Party for the coup plotter-in-chief, Donald Trump, who remains the de facto leader of the party. The bulk of the party and its entire leadership have lined up behind Trump’s lying claim that there was no coup attempt on January 6, the election was “stolen” and the Biden administration is illegitimate.
Their position was summed up by Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas, who said the “true emergency” was not the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and creation of a presidential dictatorship under Trump but rather the “border crisis” and the need for the US to increase its already massive funding of the Israeli military machine in the wake of the latest US-backed slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
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And I thought the left was all for defund and rid us of po’-lice... ...it’s a mayor privilege thing not for the common man. All the koolaid drinkers better come to grip with reality and dump the democrat socialist party.
200 mil for a quick reaction force...So that’s the price of a phone call these days??
How racist is this...
Defund the police, they said...
Cops to protect them from their actions.
Here is 1.9 billion. Dont tell anyone about what happened at the Capitol that time.
And should the GOP take over the Dems will strip the funding for the Capitol Police and Nat Guard on the way out and direct their ANTIFA, BLM, and Palestinian/antiwar crazies to attack the Capitol on their behalf.
A payoff to keep their mouths shut.
“Defund the police, they said...”
Need to consider context. This time it’s their butt. Not all butts are considered equal. (They will soon be adding that to a new amendment or save time with an executive order. Biden doesn’t know his from a hole in the ground anyway)
wy69
I thought they needed 218 votes to pass anything. The house has it so easy to pass anything.
They going to hire the Portland police department?.
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